Dos instituciones educativas : una mirada a la interacción de las familias rurales y la escuela.

Abstract

The present research work has as an interest to problematize two spaces of socialization fundamental for the development of children belonging to rural families, so the title gives account of this: “Two educational institutions: A look at the interaction of Rural Families and the School". The objective was to understand the relationship of the rural family with the school, in two basic education institutions, in two municipalities, one from the municipality of Puyo and the other from the municipality of Daule-Ecuador; geographically different locations and with different economic realities and development points. This research is applied, on a descriptive level and approached from the logic of methodological complementarity, from the mixed approach. Information gathering techniques such as in-depth interviews with teachers and the survey with parents were used, with the purpose of understanding the interactions of rural families in these two educational units. The findings reached are supported by the field information obtained from the surveys of 16 families, 8 from each educational institution, where the results indicate that the relationship between the school and the rural family is influenced by negative factors such as the low level of family income, dissatisfaction of basic needs; but this relationship is also mediated by positive factors that highlight the interest that parents have for their children's things, a good family relationship, that the mother does not work and can take care of parenting and education. But beyond the positive or negative factors the school-family relationship in rural contexts is characterized by weak communication between the parties, and the lack of strategies that allow the consolidation of both socialization agents to provide protective and developmental spaces to the boys and girls.